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s. A. HATHORNE FLQOR FASTENING FOR STOOL STANDARDS Filed June 8. 1925 y mmmm mmm Patented Nov. 9, 1926.

UNITED STATES SHERMAN A. I-IA'II-IORNE, 0F WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR 'lO CHICAGO HARD- WARE FOUNDRY COMPANY, OF NORTH CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A

ILLINOIS.

CORPORATION OF FLOOR FAS'IENING FOR STOOL STANDARDS.

Application filed. June 8, 1925.

This invention relates to fastening means whereby the hollow standards of lunch room and like stools are attached in place in a substantial manner, and the present improvement has for its object:

To provide a structural formation and combination of parts affording a firm and substantial attachment of a hollow standard to a floor, in a. manner which permits of subsequent detachment and reuse as required, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a sectional plan view of the hollow base portion of a stool standard, with the present invention applied. Il"F ig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2-2,

Fig. 3 is a similar view on line 3 3, Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the floor member of the structure.

Fig. 5 is a vertical section, a companion to Fig. 2, of the base of the standard with the floor member omitted.

Like reference numerals indicate like parts in the different views.

In the present structure the lower or base portion 1 of a stool or like standard is of the usual hollow or shell form open at the bottom, and preferably triangular in horizont-al section as shown 1n Fig. 1.

In its cavity th-e base portion 1 is formed with a pair of horizontal ribs or webs 2 and 3 arranged in spaced relation, with the opposed sides 4 and 5 of said ribs beveled or inclined in opposite directions, both horizontally and vertically as shown and adapted to function in the manner hereinafter described in detail.

The associated floor member comprisesan upstanding head 6 forming a fixed portion of a bed or floor plate 7 which is flxedly attached to the floor of a room by screws 8 passing through holes formed therefor in the plate 7, or by an ordinary lag screw passing through a central orifice 9 in said plate. The opposite sides 10 and 11 .of the head 6 are beveled or inclined in opposite direcn tions both horizontally and vertically and in a manner complementary to the opposed sides 4, 5, of the webs or ribs 2, 3 aforesaid, so as to provide extended contact between serial No. 35,578.

the two formations in an assemblage of the parts.

In such assemblage, and with the floor member fixedly secured to the surface of a fioor, the base portion 1 of a stool standard is placed over said floor member, with the ribs or webs 2, 3 in aligned but separated relation to the upstanding head 6 of said floor member, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. l. The base portion 1 is then pushed along the fioor surface so as to bring the inclined portions 4, 5 and 10, 11 of the aforesaid parts into interlocking engagement with the bottom or under face of the base 1 pressed tightlyv against the floor of the room, as shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2. In order to retain the parts in the interlocked condition above set forth, a headed screw bolt 12 is arranged horizontally in a bearing orifice in a wall of the base 1, with the screw threaded shank of said bolt in operative engagement with a screw threaded orifice in the upstanding head 6 of the floor member. With such arrangement of parts a rotation of the bolt 12 in one direct-ion will cause a forcible final engagement between the inclined or beveled formations aforesaid, while a rotation of said screw bolt in the other direction will tend to effect a release of such engagement.

I-Iaving thus fully described my invention what- I claim as new, is:

1. In a floor fastening for stools and like standards, the combination of a standard base of an open bottom shell form provided with a pair of opposed webs the opposed sides of which are inclined in both a vertical and in a horizontal direction, a floor plate formed for fixed attachment to a fioor and having an upstanding head the opposite sides of which are inclined in both a vertical and in a horizontal direction and complementary to the inclinations of the aforesaid webs for interlocking engagement therewith, and means for effective positive horizontal movement between the base and floor plate in an assembly and disassembly of parts.

2. Ina floor fastening for stool and like standards, the combination of a standard base of an open bottom shell form provided with a pairof opposed webs the opposed aides of which are inclined in both a vertical earner ermee.

and in a horizontal direction, a floor plate formed for ixedrattachinent*to a floor kand having an-upstilidingI head the/opposite Sides of which are inclined in both a vertical and la horizontal direction and compleinentai'y to the 'inclinations 'of the aforesaid Web for interlocking engagement theiewitln and inea-ns for holding the parts in engagement, the same comprising a headed boit having bearing engagement inthe wall of if) the'v baelrandl operative engagement with Saidv upstanding head.

Signed aft-.North Chicago, iii., thisid day of Juiie`,'l925."

SHERMAN A. HATHORN'EL 

